reading Dracula, timed it so I started the chapter when Mina arrives into Whitby at the same time as me
amazing tone changes as the journals/letters are taken from different sources, Mina’s medical suitor is all pointless Latin abbreviations and “(as dictated into phonograph)”
this edition is annotated so there’s endnotes that vary from:
- Dracul was an honorific given to the vile, courageous, or violent
- Here he is correcting Harker, as Count is an imperialist title imposed by the Hapsburg Empire and not recognised by the boyar
to stuff like
- A mattock is a pick with a chisel edge to break hard ground
- The blue lights will be explained later